"I look to historians for their power to……" — Rick Perlstein

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• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the… — Dan Brown
• Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. — George W. Bush
• God cannot alter the past, though historians can. — Samuel Butler
• It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does… — Chuck Close
• They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But… — Lydia M. Child
• The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. — Ernest Renan
• Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin
• In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists… — Mark Twain
• Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was… — Edward Kennedy
• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture.… — Thomas Kuhn
• In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is… — Peter Drucker
• Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness… — Simon Schama

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